After inspecting all the sacrifices and attendants, Bai Liu was left alone by Yuchuan.

Cang Tai looked at Bai Liu's back with worry. He stole a fearful glance at Yu Chuan who was standing next to Bai Liu, then knelt down and retreated.

Yuchuan walked around Bai Liu for a few times. He tapped his lower lip with his fan thoughtfully. His eyes fell on Bai Liu and he suddenly smiled: "If you are willing to cooperate with us to change your surname and come to the Yuchuan family as a sacrifice, I can guarantee that after you successfully offer a sacrifice to the Yuchuan family, you will be given the highest level of honor in the Yuchuan family."

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Yu Chuan: "A sacrifice like me, do I still have the right to change my surname?"

"Normally, it's not possible." Yu Chuan spread out his fan to cover the lower half of his face. His eyes narrowed slightly as he smiled, and wrinkles formed at the corners of his eyes. "Normally, it's impossible for a sacrifice that has been chosen by a big family to change its surname and be handed over to another family."

"But if the offering accidentally escapes and is caught by someone from another family and sacrificed first, that would be a problem."

"After all, the sacrifices during the escape are very unstable."

Bai Liu looked at Yu Chuan with a calm expression: "I don't seem to understand what Master Yu Chuan is saying."

The smile on Yu Chuan's face became more and more bizarre. He leaned over and sat cross-legged opposite Bai Liu: "I believe you have discovered, Bai Liu, that it is very difficult to mass-produce sacrifices that meet the god's pain standards."

"Of the dozens or even hundreds of sacrifices purchased at great expense and with great effort every year, less than one in ten can produce a single thread of pain after being raised for half a year. And only one in four or one in five can be successfully offered as sacrifices after a year."

"No matter how tempting the bait is, no matter how twisted the method is, when these sacrifices know that they will have to live for the pain for the rest of their lives, they will gradually become hopeless and numb after a year."

Yuchuan's expression was gloomy. "A numb sacrifice cannot produce high-quality [pain]. Therefore, most of the sacrifices that cannot be offered after one year are discarded sacrifices. Basically, they will commit suicide."

"Then we gradually discovered that no matter the servants or the sacrifices, only when they had hope in their hearts could they endure more torture and produce more pain."

"After many attempts, we finally found a way to stimulate these numb victims - that is, to let them go."

"We will plant our people among the servants, hinting to them that they can escape, and then create various accidents so that they can successfully escape along the route we have already arranged."

"But after they escape, we will not capture them immediately. The pain caused by this is not deep enough, and it is not the best time to appreciate these sacrifices."

The smile on Yu Chuan's face grew to his cheeks, and his eyes turned twisted and wild as he looked at Bai Liu:

"We usually let them stay out for half a year before capturing them."

"During this six-month period, we will arrange various "good Samaritan" characters around these escaped sacrifices."

"From the generous lady boss who offers a bowl of ramen to these hungry and penniless sacrifices for free, to the warm-hearted stranger who holds an umbrella for you when it rains, to the good people who are willing to find you a job, adopt you for a short period of time, and allow them to reintegrate into the normal life of this society, who are similar to the roles of [father], [mother], [friend], and [lover]."

"These sacrifices who have suffered great torture find it difficult to resist such kindness." Yuchuan snorted lazily from his nose as if he found it funny. "It's like a dog that has been beaten. Even if it is wary of people, it is difficult for it not to bite the meat and bones thrown to it by others."

"When these desperate refugees enjoy normal happiness, they slowly adapt to their [new life] and slowly think that the world will treat them well and give hope to everyone -"

Yu Chuan raised one corner of his mouth and said, "At this time, we will let them think that their closest people will break their false happiness."

"——And the moment their happiness was shattered and they were dragged back to hell, the pain these sacrifices burst out was unprecedented."

Bai Liu's eyes moved slightly: "Did you let Beiyuan Xiaokui out on purpose?"

Yu Chuan nodded arrogantly and smiled: "Smart man."

"Of course, considering your level of pain and intelligence, we no longer need to use such cheap tricks to cause you pain."

Yu Chuan retracted his gaze and gently fiddled with the right plate of the scale with his fan, his eyes solemn:

"Generally speaking, on the day of the evil god festival, we will collect the sacrifices from the last sacrifice, which was released half a year ago, and release the sacrifices for the next sacrifice, which will be used half a year later. This is why the sacrifices usually take a year to mature."

"Let these sacrifices be completely despaired for half a year, let them rekindle hope for half a year, and then offer sacrifices. Therefore, each time we perform sacrifices, we do not use sacrifices of the season, but sacrifices from half a year ago."

"In order to prevent the new sacrifices from finding out, we will distinguish between the old sacrifices and the new sacrifices that have been captured."

Bai Liu looked at Yu Chuan: "What about Beiyuan Xiaokui?"

Yu Chuan's face instantly darkened: "Beiyuan Xiaokui is an exception. She was captured and brought back early."

"Originally, she still had four months to mature, but after the Kitahara family won the first place in tax payment last year, they didn't want their sacrifice to be controlled by our Yuchuan family's [escape plan], so they asked to capture her when purchasing a new sacrifice, saying that she had accumulated pain for almost three years and didn't need our Yuchuan family to train her anymore."

Yuchuan slammed the table in anger: "Such an arrogant attitude is a complete questioning of the Yuchuan family's education of the sacrifices and a violation of the rules of the entire [Escape Plan]!"

His chest heaved violently with anger. "The original [escape plan] was to release all the sacrifices after they were captured, allowing these sacrifices who were in utter despair to escape again."

"The eight major families can have priority in hunting these crazy escaped sacrifices. This is a large-scale hunting activity gifted by God before the summer festival."

"When these sacrificial offerings that have escaped are caught, their pain will reach its peak. This is the best time to savor their pain. So whoever catches the sacrificial offering can immediately drag it to the shrine for sacrifice."

"This was originally a perfect plan, but the Kitahara family was dissatisfied and unwilling to comply."

Yusen's expression became colder and colder. "Hunting is originally random, but the Kitahara family believes that the Yusen family has captured the most painful sacrifice for two consecutive years, making the most valuable wish, and then driven by this wish, they will continue to be the top tax paying family next year. There must be something behind this."

"Last year, they used this as an excuse to force a reform of the sacrificial training plan, requiring the sacrificial offerings to be distributed in advance and for the major families to train their own offerings."

Yu Chuan looked stern: "And seven of the eight major families actually voted in favor of the Kitahara family's proposal."

"But under this cultivation model, the sacrifices that everyone cultivates themselves are far less painful than those cultivated under our [Escape Plan], so there were very few sacrifices that could be used for wishes at last year's summer festival, and the sacrifices that were purchased were basically scrapped."

"Except for the Kitahara family." Yusen's expression twisted. "The sacrifices they raised themselves offered the deepest pain and made them make the most valuable wishes last year, so they became the top tax paying family this year."

"So this year, the six major families returned to the Yuchuan family and chose to use the escape plan to cultivate their own sacrifices, but the Kitahara family still insisted on carrying out their own cultivation plan."

Yu Chuan looked at Bai Liu with deep concern: "——And, they have cultivated a sacrifice that is even more painful than last year."

"I'm not curious about how the Kitahara family made you suffer so much, but I can tell you for sure that the Yufu family can give you something higher than the Kitahara family."

"The Kitahara family is also participating in the summer festival escape plan this year, so you new sacrifices will be released and sent to a new place to live for half a year before being captured and brought back."

"The specific plan for each sacrifice in the escape plan is the responsibility of us, the boatmen."

Yuchuan leaned forward and stared at Bai Liu. "If you want, I can replace you with an ordinary sacrifice and send him to the place where you should flee to be tortured. As for you, you only need to wait until the summer festival is over. The Yuchuan family will give you anything you want and then send you away from Luming County, so that you can start your new life."

Bai Liu opened his eyelids: "Anything I want?"

"Yes, anything." Yu Chuan's attitude became arrogant. "Luming County is under the rule of Yu Chuan's family. Anything in Luming County, as long as you want, you can take it away."

Bai Liu looked at Yu Chuan calmly: "Then what do I need to do?"

"Sacrifice once." Yu Chuan stared at Bai Liu. "On the day of the summer festival, you will be released as the new sacrifice, and the old sacrifice that was released half a year ago and then caught will be released again. All eight major families will come back to participate in the hunt."

"I will blend you into the old offerings. All you have to do is make sure you are captured by the Yufune family and then go to the shrine to offer sacrifices once, and that's all."

Bai Liu was silent for a moment, then he suddenly smiled, and then he looked at Yu Chuan who was somewhat puzzled by his smile, and said softly: "I agree to the deal with you."